Re: [Vala] """Verbatim strings""" vs. "string" "literal" "concatenation"

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Frederik,

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:02 +0200, Frederik wrote:
> I have seen that the current Vala SVN trunk now supports verbatim
> strings. That's a nice feature, but I think that the chosen triple
> double-quote syntax could conflict with another feature I would love to
> see in Vala someday: string literal concatenation. This would allow more
> beautiful syntax formatting of long or multi-line strings, for example:
>
> string my_string = "This is the first half of the string,\n"
>                     "this is the second half";
>
> But in that case """verbatim string""" would be interpreted as
> "" (+) "verbatim string" (+) "".

This won't cause any issues. Three consecutive " are considered a single
token and will never be interpreted as an empty string followed by
another string. We should certainly add string literal concatenation,
it's just not implemented yet.

Jürg